New attitudes
Subtitle: designing in times of transformation
By: [editor, Machiel Spaan]
Contributors: Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam
Series: Research, reflections, projects -- 7; Research--reflections--projects -- 7.
Publisher: Amsterdam Academy of Architecture/Architectura & Natura Publisher
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9789461400291
Subjects: Modern Architecture; Architecture; Philosophy; Architectural design; Artists and architects; Architects; Aesthetics
Description: According to the foreword by Aart Oxenaar, director Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, architects must now adopt "a sober-minded, enterprising, inventive and self-critical attitude in redefining [their positions] within the design field and within a social and physical reality undergoing transformation." In a clear, cleanly designed format, this book presents a series of reflections to give various perspectives on this reorientation and change of attitude which has occurred within the profession in recent years. Contributors include Mark Hendriks, Machiel Spaan, Ruurd Roorda, Jeroen Kooijmans, Jan Jongert, Arjan Klok and Jan van Grunsven, among others.
Table of contents: title: Keep reading and thinking, Mark Hendriks; title: Fluid design strategies, Machiel Spaan; title: Architecture of weight, Ruurd Roorda; title: Three tales of a folding house, Huib van der Werf, Jeroen Kooijmans; title: Thin city flat out, Ed van Hinte; title: Superuse, Jan Jongert; title: A living building for entrepreneurship, Arjan Klok; title: WWWintherthur, Gert Hage; title: Institute for the Global City, Jan van Grunsven.